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  1. 1LetterT-S 12.400

    Letter from Mūsā b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to his nephew Efrayim b. Dā'ūd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Comforting the addressee (upon …

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  2. 2LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/32

    Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer's name may be preserved as well, but the conservators have …

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  3. 3LetterENA 1157.12

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Written on parchment. Likely a Maghribī mercantile letter of the 11th century. Twice refers to "my …

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  4. 4LetterBodl. MS heb. d 80/45

    Letter from a father to a son. On vellum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This fragment opens with updates on the health of various …

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  5. 5LetterBL OR 10112D.22

    Letter fragment (top only) from Yisra'el b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yisra'el tells Nahray to add the dinars to the money he …

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  6. 6LetterBL OR 13888.2

    Two business letters from Marwan b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribi. The one on the left is addressed to R. Yosef b. R. Avraham al-Maghribi. The address of …

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  7. 7Legal documentENA 3742.3

    Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Involves Avraham b. Faraj/Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbī who is known from several other documents from the late 11th …

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  8. 8LetterENA 4009.12

    Mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. On verso vocalized piyyut. Needs further examination.

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  9. 9List or tableENA 967.1

    Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very detailed. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Addressed to a business partner (yā sīdī). "I have sent you the account of …

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  10. 10Legal documentENA 2160.31

    Accounts of some sort. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 11th century, based on the handwriting and the names (e.g. Barhūn). Needs examination.

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  11. 11LetterENA NS 41.4

    Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter, mentioning Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. 11th century.

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  12. 12LetterENA NS 51.25

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This seems to be the last sheet of (or addendum to) what was was originally a longer …

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  13. 13List or tableENA NS 53.14

    Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Mūsā b. Barhūn.

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  14. 14LetterENA NS 65.10

    Business letter from an unknown writer in Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century based on the hand and the names mentioned (Barhūn, Nissim, Abū …

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  15. 15LetterENA 2727.39

    Letter fragment from Nissim b. Nahray, unknown location, to Abū l-Fa{ra}j Daniel b. [...] ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Needs examination.

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  16. 16LetterENA NS 70.11

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Abū Sahl Natan b. Yaʿaqov. Mentions the addressee's troubles with the …

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  17. 17Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/17

    Legal testimony. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Heshvan 136[2?] Seleucid, which is 1051 CE. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan Yoshiyya ha-Nasi and Daniel ha-Nasi; also mentions Yefet b. …

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  18. 18Legal documentT-S 12.178

    Power of attorney (called "שטר הרשאה זה" in the antepenultimate line). In a mixture of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-Arabic. Salmān ha-Kohen b. Shabīb appoints someone …

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  19. 19LetterT-S 12.193

    Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Qayrawān. In Hebrew. The content of the letter is lacking, with only the sender's title and …

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  20. 20LetterT-S 13J29.4

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.

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  21. 21List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 94/24

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn al-Nagid is mentioned. There is one line in Arabic script at the bottom. From line 6 onward, written in the hand …

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  22. 22LetterT-S 8J21.8

    Letter from Salāma b. Ismaʿīl to Ismaʿīl b. [...] concerning business affairs. Dating: 11th century. (Information from CUDL.)

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  23. 23Legal documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.26 (Michaelides 26)

    Letter in Arabic script. Sent from al-Ramla (l. 2). Dating: likely 11th century. Needs examination. Verso was apparently not photographed. NB: Michaelides 26 corresponds to …

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  24. 24LetterNLI 577.10/36

    Letter probably from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Taherti. Very damaged. Needs examination.

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  25. 25LetterNLI 577.9/7

    Letter to Nahray b. Nissim. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost complete. Mentions flax; Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Kohen; "the beads of al-Tustari"; Av[raham] b. Sughmār and Abū …

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  26. 26LetterMoss. II,155.1

    Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Nissim, the arrival of the Kohen, and [Isḥā?]q al-Qābisī.

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  27. 27List or tableMoss. VII,158

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Mardūk b. Mūsā.

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  28. 28LetterJRL SERIES B 4358

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Khayr; Faraj; ʿIwāḍ; some quarter-dinars (? rubāʿiyya); and perhaps a Taherti (last legible word of right margin). If the …

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  29. 29LetterMoss. II,180

    Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dealing in corals and pearls among other items. Probably 11th-century.

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  30. 30LetterMoss. II,184

    Fragment of a business letter, probably 11th-century, as it mentions Barhūn and Nahray. Difficult to read due to ink smudging; needs further examination.

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  31. 31List or tableJRL SERIES B 5190

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions Abū Yaḥyā (=Nahray b. Nissim?).

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  32. 32LetterJRL SERIES B 5964

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th-century mercantile. Addressed to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn (?) and Abū Saʿīd Yūsuf. Possibly from a Mūsā.

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  33. 33LetterJRL SERIES B 7846

    Letter fragment addressed to Nahray b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the substance remains unless there is a join.

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  34. 34LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 1864/9

    Letter in Hebrew. Looks like the handwriting of Shelomo b. Yehuda. Needs examination.

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  35. 35LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110a/21

    Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions brazilwood, but otherwise the remaining text is quite vague.

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  36. 36Unknown typeJRL SERIES A 1059

    11th-century document mentioning Farah b. Yosef. In a different hand, a (literary?) text in Hebrew with phrases such as "a generation that has no thorns," …

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  37. 37LetterJRL SERIES B 2759

    Fragment (left half of recto, right side of verso) of an 11th-century business letter to Musa b. Yiṣḥaq of Sfax.

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  38. 38List or tableT-S Ar.43.16

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions the cost of shipping from al-Mahdiyya to Qayrawān.

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  39. 39LetterENA NS 58.17

    Letter addressed to the home (or mercantile house) of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th century. Needs examination.

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  40. 40LetterT-S AS 148.91

    Business letter, mentioning commodities such as silk. Very faded. Dating: probably 11th century. (Information from CUDL)

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  41. 41LetterT-S AS 151.27

    Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr; Ibn Qayyūma; Ibn al-Fakhkhār. Mentions commodities such as flax, brazilwood, cinnamon, and pepper. Also mentions חאמס = ḥamas = …

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  42. 42LetterT-S Misc.28.66

    Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century, on paleographic grounds. Verso contains one line of Arabic script, perhaps the address. Needs further examination.

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  43. 43List or tableT-S Misc.8.11

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Nahray b. Nissim and Yūsuf b. al-Ghazzāl.

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  44. 44LetterENA NS 13.37

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. [...] to Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an 11th-century, Maghribī business letter. Uncited in the literature.

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  45. 45LetterT-S Misc.25.43

    Letter from Nissim b. Khalfūn b. Benaya to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhirtī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. …

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  46. 46LetterT-S AS 171.33

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a mercantile letter of the 11th century. The name "Yūsuf" appears in the address, but the rest is very faded. Needs …

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  47. 47LetterT-S NS J216

    Business letter from Abū l-Surūr b. David to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Fragment. Mentions the late Abū Saʿīd and the Muslims who claimed they …

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  48. 48Legal documentT-S 12.170

    Legal document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: 966–1011 CE, because the qiyyum is signed by Shemarya b. Elḥanan. Involves Yiṣḥaq b. Sha'ul and his wife …

    1. פקאי ר[.......]

    2. הודאה זו לאשתו זו רמלה באילו שתי [......]

    3. באגב בין רב למעט מטלטלי א[......]

    4. שטוענת וכל מה שפוש[ט]ת [.....]

    5. נאמנת בדיבו…

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  49. 49LetterT-S NS J349

    Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Zayn al-Tujjār and Rabbenu Nahray Gadol ha-Yeshiva (=Nahray b. Nissim?). The sender's name may be Yosef (there is a …

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  50. 50LetterT-S NS J49

    Tadhkira (memorandum, bill of lading) drawn up by Nahray b. Nissim for Yehuda b. Khalfa. Complete and well preserved. Needs to be edited.

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